Further Reading

Source Notes

"War is, above all things, an art.": Francis V. Greene, "The Important Improvements in the Art of War During the Past Twenty Years and Their Probable Effect on Future Military Operations," Journal of the Military Service Institution of the United States 4, no. 13 (1883): 41.

The Human Dimension-Combat at Han-sur-Nied: Hugh M. Cole, The Lorraine Campaign, volume 5, United States Army in World War II-The European Theater of Operations (Washington, D.C.: Historical Division, United States Army, 1950), 358-361. The action took place on 11 November 1944. The American units were from Combat Command A, 6th Armored Division. They were opposed by elements of the German 48th and 17th SS Panzer Genadier Divisions.

The 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault), 24-28 February 1991: Command Report, 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault) for Operations Desert Shield and Desert Storm, 2 August 1990 through 1 May 1991 (Fort Leavenworth, Kans.: Combined Arms Research Library Archives, 1991), 17-26, 46-60; see also Robert H. Scales, Certain Victory: The US Army in the Gulf War (Washington, D.C.: Office of the Chief of Staff, US Army, 1993; reprint, Fort Leavenworth, Kans.: US Army Command and General Staff College Press, 1994); Richard M. Swain, "Lucky War": Third Army in Desert Storm (Fort Leavenworth, Kans.: US Army Command and General Staff College Press, 1994).

Manstein's Donbas Operation, February 1943: David M. Glantz, From the Don to the Dnepr: Soviet Offensive Operations, December 1942-August 1943, Cass Series on Soviet Military Experience (London: Frank Cass, 1991), 82-150.